If you want to reach your goals it is necessary to formulate a strategy. You need a top-level overview of your organization to do your best and motivate your team.

“Thinking strategically“, a free ebook that you can download at Bookboon.com,  provides useful suggestions in order to help simplify your work.

In this book, Dr. Chris Peterson, Professor at Michigan State University, provides a list of what he calls the six P’s of thinking strategically:

1.     Plan – action that you have consciously intended
2.     Ploy – What you will do to out-do the competition
3.     Pattern – Establishing success as a consistent event over time
4.     Position – Creating and holding a market presence
5.     Purpose – Direction as a collective group
6.     Push – Goals that stretch the organization – push them outside   the existing comfort zone of performance

 

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